The Wonders Of Modern Technology

Another headline descended from blogger's heaven, I see.

I feel technologically challenged. Not that it'd be a completely new feeling to me, I generally learn pretty quickly how to use things, but when things go kablooie all I can do is hang around in the background providing appreciative noises whenever someone more talented makes things work again.

So far I haven't broken anything. So far.

I downloaded a movie called Flustern und Schreien, which is a documentary, I believe, about the 80's rock scene in the Eastern Germany. Featuring, naturally, Paul Landers and Christian "Flake" Lorenz, currently of Rammstein. I do feel sorry for Mr. Landers in the movie, he looks like a poodle had crawled on top of his head and died there. Ah, the golden 1980's...

Aaanyway, I had this thought that for once I'd be a clever girl and burned the documentary on a DVD so's not to take too much space in the computer. So while I've been contemplating whether the nail varnish I bought today was a good idea (the colour's kinda bluish-purple and I can't decide if I like it or not. I think I do, though there's something awfully early 90's about it) and reading Harry Potter things have been running their natural course and a while ago the computer asked me to insert an empty disc, which I did, and after that I've been waiting for something to happen.

And waiting.

And waiting.

If nothing continues to happen I think I'll abort the mission, so to speak, and try again later, though how can I be sure that thingies haven't been happening to the disc? Or maybe this is supposed to take an awful lot of time and I'm just being impatient.

And yes, before you ask, I'm sure the disc is in the right drive and it's not upside down.

Oh bollocks. It's not keeping any kind of noise and there are no flashing lights, this wannabe-nerd is canceling the action and going outside, I've been sitting indoors for too long.

Oh, and here's me driving the tractor. There are at least some things I'm not completely helpless with.


















Not at my most beautiful in the other piccie, sorry about that. It's better than the other 2, where I clearly went in the panic mode I usually go into whenever I find myself in front of a camera. You know the symptoms, mad grimace on face, wild look in the eyes, desperate to remember which was the better angle and all the time having the certain sinking feeling that it'll never look good anyway.

If I was Carrie Bradshaw I could write an entire column about our twisted relationship with our own pictures but I'm not so I won't, at least not now.

Instead I'll do as I said and go for a walk and enjoy the results of my latest download spree (all perfectly legal, the bands provided those songs themselves on their very own sites), namely Solitude by Janus and Bitte, bitte by a no longer existing band Schweisser.